Air strikes by the Saudi-led military coalition killed at least 20 people and wounded 40 others at a wedding in a village in northwestern Yemen late on Sunday.
Rescue teams said the wedding was taking place in the Huthi-controlled Bani Qais area of Hajjah province, north of Sanaa, when jets carried out the raid. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) stated that a hospital it supports in Hajjah received at least 40 patients wounded with their bodies torn apart due to the air strikes.
“We take this report very seriously and it will be fully investigated as all reports of this nature are,” a spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition told a source.
It was not the first deadly strike on a wedding during Yemen’s conflict, which has killed people since the coalition intervened. Saudi Arabia and its allies have been accused of multiple war crimes by rights groups since entering the war in Yemen in 2015.
The Yemen war has killed more than 10,000 people, displaced more than 2 million and driven the country to the verge of famine till now.
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